Charlie Holtz is the co-founder of Conductor, an AI coding agent orchestration app that lets developers manage multiple concurrent coding agents. The company was part of Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch.
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Charlie Holtz uses Conductor daily to orchestrate multiple coding agents, treating AI as a workforce where he acts as CEO reviewing PRs; the product enforces opinionated workflows (worktrees, PRs, reviews) to manage agent output at scale.
Charlie Holtz reaches for Claude Opus when building new features because it feels more creative and like a partner, while using fast mode and dangerously accept all permissions for maximum token throughput.
Charlie Holtz uses OpenAI's Codex for grinding through specific problems and long debugging sessions because it's not afraid to make many tool calls, complementing Opus for execution-heavy work.